Lang, Andrew ♂
Education
Student United College 1861-1862 Log.; Gk. 2; Lat. 2; Math. 1 1862-1863 M. Phil.; Gk. 3; Lat. 3. Attended Established Church while a student.
LL.D. 10.1.1885.
Gifford lecturer 1888-1890.
Birth/childhood
Born 31.1.1844 son of John Lang, sheriff clerk of Selkirkshire and Jane Plenderleath Sellar.
[Attended Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto School and Edinburgh Academy.]
Career
Also at Glasgow University and Oxford University - B.A. 1869, M.A. 1875.
Gifford lecturer 1888-1890. [St Andrews University] [University lecturer]
Scholar, folklorist, poet and man of letters. [anthropologist, historian]
Publications
See Andrew Lang's Fairy Books in Wikipedia.
The mystery of Mary Stuart. (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901)
A Monk of Fife. (London: Longman's, Green & Co., 1896)
John Knox and the Reformation.(London: Longman's, Green & Co., 1905)
Death
Died at Banchory 20.7.1912.
Sources
- DNB
- Monumental inscription St Andrews Cathedral burial ground new
- Andrew Lang in Wikipedia
- also Andrew Lang, Selected Letters in St Andrews Digital Collections
- alsoAndrew Lang Manuscripts and Andrew Lang Books in the University of St Andrews Library.